I have the Buffalo Marathon in only 4 days!!!! I am aiming at trying to maintain a 10:10 pace for the run.

Today I was scheduled for a 5 mile run at pace. Since I am on vacation and not at home, I don’t have my trusty treadmill. So I actually had to run on the *gasp* road. Since I am going to be running in my tuxedo jersey in Buffalo, people have told me that I better try running in it. So I am up here in Maine on My Desert Island (where Bar Harbor is), running down the road in my tuxedo jersey. I mapped out a route that was about 5 miles. I had my Polar HRM with the footpod on. I have yet to calibrate the thing. I have planned to run at a 9:20 pace, and then walk every 6th minute. But I was having hard time trying keep track of distace, pace, time, etc on the watch. So I walked for one minute every mile. The watch was beeping the whole way telling me my HR is way up. I ran to the halfway point, the but the HRM is telling me I ran just under 2.3 miles instead of 2.5 miles that runthere.com said it was. I turned around, and ran back. I got back to our campground with a total run time under 44 minutes. The watch said my pace was 9:36 I think. But if the distance was farther, then I ran faster. Later, we drove the distance, and found it to be about 2.5 miles to the turn around point. So if I ran 5 miles in under 44 minutes I was faster than a 9:00 minute pace. No wonder my HR was in the 170s!!! LOL! I was going way too fast!

Posted by Rob in Running on May 23rd, 2007 |